The Time Traveller says that the previous week he finished his machine and took a voyage into the future.

Once the Time Traveller has washed up, he agrees to tell his story in full on the condition that nobody argues with him or asks questions, since he is terribly exhausted. He has left a note instructing them to proceed with dinner if he is late, and partway through their dinner the Time Traveller staggers into the house looking disheveled and injured. He shows the machine to the guests, but they remain skeptical.Īt dinner the following week, the Time Traveller is not there to greet his guests. The Time Traveller then reveals that he has almost completed a life-sized machine that will transport him through time. The psychologist, ever skeptical, depresses a lever and the machine disappears.

To demonstrate the validity of his ideas, the Time Traveller brings into the living room a small model of a machine. His guests are upper class British men-a doctor, a psychologist, a journalist, etc.-and they greet his pronouncements with skepticism. The story opens on a dinner party at the home of an eminent scientist, the Time Traveller, who is explaining to his assembled guests (including the narrator telling the story) principles of science and math that support the possibility of traveling across time, just as one would travel across space. The Time Machine is a work of science-fiction that imagines how the social conditions of Victorian England have evolved in the year 802,701.

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